For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the ...

The classical Greek philosopher Socrates is a fixture of literature and culture, but his legacy is complicated by the fact that what we know of him hasn't come to us directly from him, but from a ...

Phiroze Vasunia is Professor of Greek at University College London and the author, most recently, of 'The Classics and Colonial India' (Oxford, 2013). Why was Gandhi compared so frequently to Socrates ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

"Falling Down is not a Failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen." Quote of the Day Meaning: Socrates’ quote teaches us that mistakes and setbacks are part of life and learning. The ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, the author of Privacy Is Power, and the editor of the Oxford Handbook ...

When we talk about education, and about tutoring in particular, we often speak of the Socratic method. Often what we mean when we refer to that method is simply something like a question-and-answer ...